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The Illusion of Knowledge

Or Why Data Is More Important than Knowledge

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Reports of human expertise instil admiration and awe in us. A skilled expert might be able to play numerous games of chess in parallel (de Groot, 1965) and beat most opponents, or might pinpoint the problem in a machine within seconds or minutes where others have wasted hours without benefit.

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Wagner, C. (2000). The Illusion of Knowledge. In: Hölldobler, S. (eds) Intellectics and Computational Logic. Applied Logic Series, vol 19. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9383-0_21

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